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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 2576" data-attributes="member: 509">The church is big and majestic. Nearly 25 meters from floor to ceiling, all made from black stone. There used to be six big mosaic windows on either side of the church, but now they are all broken and have been replaced by bits of wood. This results that the only light inside the church comes from the broken entrance. The church has been stripped of everything of any real value ages ago, long before the Gromnburgians came. There's nothing there but dust and spider webs, and lots of both. Even the church benches have been taken away. The only thing left is the stone altar and that's just because it's too heavy.From the other end of the church a faint crying can be heard, "mommy... ::sob::" The little girl sits on the altar, hugging her knees. As they walk closer to the girl they hear a dark, snakelike voice: "Who's there? Looks like we have some friends over to play with." A young pale fellow, wearing a long brown leather trench coat, levitates a couple of meters over the altar. They could've sworn he wasn't there a second ago. "And they're capes too, what do I owe this pleasure?"Incognito points his pistol at the pale stranger. "We are not about to let you harm the girl. Give up or be annihilated.""Oh, your little toys can't harm me, and no worries, I have no intentions to harm my little prodigy.""You're a vampire aren't you?" Stickler asks."Some might call me so, I see myself as one who is blessed by the shadows."Incognito suddenly realizes that something is wrong with what the vampire said: "Prodigy? What do you mean by that?""I see it as my task to spread the shadow's blessing.""Yeah, whatever." Incognito fires at the vampire. He hits, but the bullet just goes straight through him without effecting him in any way."Oh darn, you holed my coat! Now I have to kill you." He starts laughing loudly. "I'm a bit thirsty actually, I've gotten a bit tired of all this Gromnburgian blood lately, all this paranoia clearly affects the taste."After some quick brainstorming Incognito yells to the others: "Tear down the windows!" Kurk and Stickler run to either side of the church and start hacking through the wood that covers them. After they tear through the first two windows, beams of light strike the vampire who screams an inhuman scream and falls down to the floor.In no time they have opened all the 12 windows and the church is flooding with sunlight. The screams of the vampire have stopped, but he seems not to have been killed, there are tracks in the dust leading to the staircase that leads up to the tower.Incognito grabs the little girl and runs outside while Kurk and Stickler run up the staircase after the vampire.Incognito gets greeted by a big crowd of people armed with torches and hayforks. A tall skinny guy waves a shovel at him: "Put the girl down ya freak!!" Incognito puts the girl down who runs to her mother and puts her arms around her neck."Mommy, the sun burns..."The shovel waving skinny guy turns to the mob: "This building may once have been a house of the lord, but now it is infested by spawns of the shadows! We must destroy it and all it's evils with it!!"Kurk and Stickler run up the stairs after the vampire, when they're about halfway up they see the vampire lying in the staircase badly burned, the smell of his burning flesh is absolutely repulsive. At first they think that the vampire is dead but it starts to speak: "You bastards! You repulsive puny cattle! You make me sick!""Yeah? Says da corpse." Kurk prepares to chop it's head off, but the vampire is faster and grabs the axe.At the same time they hear some commotion down stairs. "Light it now!" Sounds like an angry mob.Stickler gets nervous. "You think they are gonna burn the place down?""How? There's nothing here to burn, it's all just stone." Kurk answers Stickler as he wrestles the axe out of the hands of the vampire. The vampire kicks Stickler in the stomach and Stickler falls down the stairs, landing harshly at the bottom. Kurk chops the vampire's right hand off, who flees further up the stairs and Kurk follows. When Stickler gets back on his feet he sees some basic decoration changes, the whole floor has been covered in oil and five barrels of gunpowder have been placed middle of the room. He screams at his brother: "Kurk, they may not be able to burn the place down, but they sure can blow it up!! The place is loaded with gunpowder. Lets get the hell out of here!"Kurk catches up with the vampire at the top of the stair, not able to go any further up because of the sunlight that shines through the broken windows in the top room. The vampire is helpless, Kurk blocks it way down and the sunshine blocks it's way up. It's goes into a frenzy and leaps at Kurk, who wrestles it down with ease. He gets a good hold of it and draws the vampire with him to the old bell room (lacking any kind of church bell now, somebody pinched it years ago). The vampire kicks and tries to bite Kurk, but Kurk is stronger. It starts to burn as Kurk forces it into the light. It screams in pain."Fry bastard!" Kurk throws the vampire out the window. It bursts into flames and then explodes halfway down. Only ash lands on the ground.Meanwhile somebody throws a torch through one of the windows on the ground floor. Stickler quickly throws it back out, but three other torches get thrown in and ignites the oil on the floor. Stickler runs over to the staircase and screams: "Kurk, get your butt down here, it's about to blow!"Kurk runs down the stairs as fast as he can. When he gets down every inch of the floor and the gunpowder barrels are burning. The two brothers run out like hell through the fire and smoke. Someone has barricaded the doors so they jump out one of the windows. When they're out they just run as hell away as the church goes up in a gigantic blue fireball."Sh*t!"They go and reunite with Incognito who is being held by the angry mob."Burn demons, in hell! All of ye!" It's the shovel guy again.Kurk goes berserk and waves his axe threatingly around: "Shuddup!! Just bloody shudder all of you filthy superstitious paranoid bunch of wankers!!! Release my friend or I chop the head of every last one of you and feed it to my demonic half fiend cat!!!"The shovel guy takes a couple of steps back and releases Incognito who walks over to his fellow party members. "I didn't know you had a cat?""I don't. Lets get the hell out of here!"* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * They go back to Leeta who gives them the identity of the witch hunter, who turns out to be some chap named Gerald who lives in the Mad Cow Inn over in the eastern worker's ward. A certified nutcase she says.</blockquote>

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